John Glenn, who declared as a 77-year-old in a news conference from space that "to look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible," says facts about scientific discovery should be taught ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2015
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NASA will try next week to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage following a four-month delay for fuel tank repairs.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2011
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The first humanoid robot ever launched into space is finally free. Astronauts at the International Space Station unpacked Robonaut on Tuesday, 2 1/2 weeks after its arrival via shuttle Discovery. NASA broadcast the humorous ...
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2011
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Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake.
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2012
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An experimental heat transfer system designed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is scheduled to depart Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Astronauts will install the system into a laboratory of the International ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 25, 2009
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NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011
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Just before midnight last night, space shuttle Discovery began its slow roll from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Riding aboard the crawler-transporter, the shuttle ...
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2010
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On this day 10 years ago, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched to the International Space Station carrying ESA's European Modular Cultivation System – a miniature greenhouse to probe how plants grow in weightlessness.
Biotechnology
Jul 5, 2016
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Space is about to get its first humanoid from planet Earth. Robonaut 2 - affectionately known as R2 - is hitching a one-way ride to the International Space Station this week aboard the final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
Space Exploration
Nov 1, 2010
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Iconic images of astronomical pillars of gas and dust, views of galaxies soon after they were formed, an accelerating universe driven by Dark Energy… "give us more!" say the public and the taxpayers. The Hubble Space Telescope ...
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2015
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